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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I saw this on GMA.  His "2" parents are doctors and very much upper middle class.  A great feat, but hardly compares to the Banneker boy.  Congrats to both.  This kid says he's leaning towards Yale.[/quote]

His parents are immigrants who studied medicine and became NURSES.[/quote]
Nurses are middle class.
The implication that "immigrant" necessarily signifies poverty is incorrect, to put it mildly. I have the impression that many immigrants from Africa come from African middle class if not upper crust. They may be poor by American standards starting out, but the mentality and the values are certainly present in the family. 
I am happy for both young men and hope that they have great careers in college and beyond.[/quote]

No one suggested that nurses WEREN'T middle class. However, nurses are not the same as doctors either. Just wanted to point that out to the poster who wanted to dismiss this child's accomplishments with the 'Oh well, he was upper class so what do you expect?' as if upper class kids are being admitted to all 8 ivies every day. :roll:

I also never suggested immigrant means poverty. However, I was again debunking the argument of the spoiled rich kid who should've been considered a shoe-in because of his family easily paved the way for him. Nope! Like their son, they obviously worked their butts off to become something in this country too.

I'm always amused at posters who get their panties in a bunch over things that were never said.

How hard are reading comprehension, analysis, and inference skills?[/quote]

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